The Book Shire

2017 ARC reads

North of Happy by Adi Alsaid

North of Happy by Adi Alsaid 1 cup likeable protagonist 2 ½ cups grief-induced hallucinations 3 cups food porn ½ cup diversity   6 TB forbidden [...]

Ash and Quill by Rachel Caine

Okay, I’m sorry but WHAT?!?!?!?!? WHY IS THERE NOT A RELEASE DATE FOR BOOK FOUR YET?!?!? WHY? It should be ABSOLUTELY ILLEGAL to withhold said information [...]

Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali

Saints and Misfits is a pretty solid contemporary with some truly extraordinary components. Let me dive right in. Here’s what I liked: Janna is a bright [...]

Saint Death by Marcus Sedgwick

It’s very hard to review this book because I WANTED to love it the way I loved Blood Red Snow White and while I think that Saint Death is every bit as [...]

Bang by Barry Lyga

I wasn't really sure what to expect when I started reading this one, and it hit me like a punch to the gut basically on page one. Sebastian Cody accidentally [...]

The Hundredth Queen by Emily R. King

I wasn’t expecting to love this as much as I did (which is saying a lot because I was expecting to love it), and now all I want to do is FLAIL UNCONTROLLABLY [...]

The Unlikelies by Carrie Firestone

Last year, Carrie Firestone’s The Loose Ends List was definitely on my top books of 2016 list. It was uproariously unrepentant and unprecedented in its [...]

Roar by Cora Carmack

What a gorgeous freaking book! I loved pretty much everything about it from cover to cover and here’s why you will too: There is STORM MAGIC. Storm magic [...]

This is Really Happening by Erin Chack

I didn't really know what to expect when I picked up This is Really Happening, but I was intrigued by a memoir written by someone my own age, currently working [...]